Installing Office 2007

[Steve]

Hi

We are just about to buy Office 2007 for our business. It's not something
I've done as a 'mass project' and was wondering what the best method of
deploying Office 07 is?

We currently have SBS 03 with Office 2000.

We have roughly 100 laptops/desktops to install onto.

Also are there any known compatibilty issues with installing Office 07 but
still accessing/editing old documents created with Office 2000?

Thanks

Steve

 

[Gemini]

Steve, whereas I don't know about doing a "mass installation" of Office 2007,
here are my $0.02.

My latest laptop came w/ the trial version of Office 2007. I am a heavy
Excel user. Excel 2007 crashes frequently and randomly. Secondly, the new UI
has badly affected my productivity, to the point I've decided that I don't
want to continue with Office 2007 and the ridiculous "Ribbon". I've evaluated
OpenOffice. However, since I have several macros that I use, I plan to
install Office 2003 until I can figure out how best to migrate my macros to
OpenOffice.

Perhaps you might want to have a small group try out Office 2007 first.
Based on the information I've been able to glean, new users apparently like
the new UI. However, there are quite a few (like yours truly) who have used
Office products for many years and aren't exactly thrilled with the new UI.

Hope this helps!